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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Matthew Morrison spoke Hawaiian slang to woo his wife by Barbara Hoffman

Don’t ask Matthew Morrison about the “Glee” wrap party: He wasn’t there. As soon as the cast filmed the last of their six-season run, the erstwhile Will Schuester was winging...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

The real story behind the $135M portrait that inspired a Helen Mirren film by Barbara Hoffman

She’s been compared to the “Mona Lisa” — though no one thought Mona slept with the man who painted her. Yet the subject of Gustav Klimt’s dazzling “Portrait of Adele...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:03PM
Saturday, March 28, 2015

An ‘illegal’ dancer returns to the stage — 70 years later by Barbara Hoffman

Billy Rose nicknamed her “Jailbait” — but Paulette Harwood was too young to know what the great showman meant. After all, she was just 16 when she started dancing at...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:47PM
Saturday, March 14, 2015

Julie Andrews reveals ‘Sound of Music’ secrets by Barbara Hoffman

Lady Gaga knows what’s great. Which is why, when she sang that “Sound of Music” medley at the Oscars, she gave it her best Julie Andrews spin. “Wasn’t she terrific?”...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:28PM
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Meet the siblings who danced their way to Broadway by Barbara Hoffman

Ten years ago, Megan Fairchild splurged on a box set of four Gene Kelly musicals. Little did the New York City Ballet dancer suspect that she and her brother, Robert,...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:11PM
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Jason Biggs talks Twitter woes and his ‘Bachelor’ obsession by Barbara Hoffman

We won’t have Larry Bloom to bitch about any more. “Orange Is the New Black” returns in June — or maybe July; the Netflix press rep hates to confirm anything!...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Why Jeremy Jordan likes to drink Scotch with Anna Kendrick by Barbara Hoffman

When you fall in love, make out and break up with someone — even if you’re just pretending — it’s nice to know who you’re dealing with. Which is why,...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:59PM
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Schilling, Dinklage can’t save shaky off-Broadway play by Barbara Hoffman

A century before Mrs. Robinson and “The Graduate,” Turgenev gave us Natalya, the conniving cougar of his 1855 comedy, “A Month in the Country.” Helen Mirren made her Broadway debut...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Ricky Jay’s magical New York by Barbara Hoffman

“Was I ever tempted to be a con man or a card shark? Yes,” says Ricky Jay, who overcame temptation to become one of the greatest sleight-of-hand artists of all...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM
Friday, January 16, 2015

230 hopefuls audition to be the next Carole King in ‘Beautiful’ by Barbara Hoffman

They came in every size, height, and hair color and texture — straight, curly and frizzy — each one a candidate for “Beautiful,” the Carole King musical. Tony winner Jessie...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:51PM
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Martin Short ready to fill Nathan Lane’s shoes in ‘It’s Only a Play’ by Barbara Hoffman

In a case of epic miscasting, an elfin, 24-year-old Martin Short played a brooding, macho convict in the gay prison drama “Fortune and Men’s Eyes” in 1974. Afterward, as he...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:47PM
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Jack Black’s ‘School of Rock’ is Broadway-bound by Barbara Hoffman

You’ve probably seen the movie. Now Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hoping you’ll see the show — “School of Rock: The Musical,” coming to Broadway in the fall. The “Phantom of the...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:26PM
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Where does a male ballerina find his toe shoes? by Barbara Hoffman

Never mind men in tights: Far rarer is the sight of men in toe shoes — and rarer still is the man who pirouettes en pointe with aplomb. The all-male...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:32PM
Saturday, November 29, 2014

You won’t believe what NYC museums keep in storage by Barbara Hoffman

Apparently, you can have too much of a good thing — which explains why Lauren Bacall’s gowns, Beethoven’s death mask, a paddy wagon and a 68-million-year-old triceratops skull are all.…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:50AM
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Brooke Shields talks about her hard-drinking mama in a new memoir by Barbara Hoffman

Brooke Shields says she hadn’t planned to write a book about her mother — just an obituary. In 2012, after Teri Shields died at 79 of dementia-related illness, she wrote...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:27PM
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Joshua Bell: My classical music New York by Barbara Hoffman

He’s one of the most famous violinists in the world — but when Joshua Bell fiddled incognito in a Washington Metro station, he barely cleared $30. Would he have made...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00AM
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Richard Chamberlain: ‘Thorn Birds’ star still gorgeous after all these (80) years by Barbara Hoffman

Richard Chamberlain is a tad tired of people telling him how marvelous he looks. “It’s almost getting troublesome,” says the former Dr. Kildare. “The first thing people say is, ‘Go…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:45PM
Monday, November 3, 2014

America Ferrera shines off Broadway by Barbara Hoffman

When the cast of “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” bursts into “America the Beautiful,” they might well be singing about their leading lady, America Ferrera. As Sally, a woman who’s inh…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:43PM
Saturday, November 1, 2014

At 80, Shirley MacLaine still talking — and not looking — back by Barbara Hoffman

The stars haven’t aligned the way Shirley MacLaine would have liked for “Elsa & Fred,” the late-life love story starring herself and Christopher Plummer. “I love that it’s bein…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:08PM
Friday, October 17, 2014

Take a sneak peek at the freaks of Broadway’s revamped ‘Side Show’ by Barbara Hoffman

Take a peek at the freaks — the newfangled geeks! “Side Show” is back on Broadway, but it looks very different from the show that opened there back in 1997....

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:37PM
Saturday, October 4, 2014

This man has spent $25,000 seeing ‘Rock of Ages’ 500 times by Barbara Hoffman

Abe Calimag remembers his first “Rock of Ages.” It was July 1, 2009, and he bought a ticket because actress Amy Spanger was in it, and he loved her in...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:12PM
Saturday, September 13, 2014

5 awkward questions for Michael Cera by Barbara Hoffman

To the pantheon of the world’s Most Unlikely Leading Men, a category arguably inaugurated by Dustin Hoffman, let us add Michael Cera. After a precocious start in “Arrested Development”…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:26PM
Thursday, August 28, 2014

What was it really like behind the scenes of ‘Mary Poppins’? by Barbara Hoffman

The life of a child actor is often nasty, brutish and short (Google Macaulay Culkin). But playing Jane Banks in “Mary Poppins” was all high-flying kites, carousel horses — and...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:37PM
Sunday, August 3, 2014

Pia Zadora fights back against being a punchline by Barbara Hoffman

In the ’80s, her name was a punch line: Pia Zadora! Especially when her 1982 incest flick, “Butterfly” — produced by her older, billionaire husband, Meshulam Riklis — wasn’t even…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:43AM
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Meet the adorable dogs backstage on Broadway by Barbara Hoffman

This was the season Broadway let the dogs out — the pint-size Pomeranian of “Bullets Over Broadway,” Billie Holiday’s Chihuahua in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” the do…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:06PM
Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Broadway actors who’ve played the same roles for over 10 years by Barbara Hoffman

The first time Donna Marie Asbury stepped onstage in “Chicago” crying, “He ran into my knife — 10 times!” her daughter was in diapers. That was 16 years ago. Daughter...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:47AM
Saturday, June 7, 2014

The stars of ‘A Gentleman’s Guide’ are fighting for the same Tony by Barbara Hoffman

Dying is easy, comedy is hard — and musical comedy is murder. At the least, judging from “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” it’s a killer workout: Since starting...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:49PM
Sunday, June 1, 2014

‘Just Jim Dale’ compresses 60 years into 90 minutes by Barbara Hoffman

In “Just Jim Dale,” opening Tuesday at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre, the 78-year-old Tony winner and former comedian, pop singer (he wrote the lyrics to the ’60s hit “Georgy Gir…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:17AM
Saturday, May 17, 2014

An interview with Chris O’Dowd, the homeless Tony nominee by Barbara Hoffman

He charmed us in “Bridesmaids” and alarmed us — and Jessa, briefly his wife — in “Girls.” Now Chris O’Dowd is bringing theatergoers to tears as Lennie, the sweet, slow-witted...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:12PM
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Wigs – 7 of them – make NPH’s ‘Hedwig’ one sexy lady by Barbara Hoffman

Clothes make the man. But it takes far more — half a dozen wigs, boatloads of beads and a size 40C bra — to transform Neil Patrick Harris into a...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:25PM
Thursday, April 24, 2014

7 performers who hit back at hecklers by Barbara Hoffman

Not everyone respects the key rule of theatergoing: Don’t screw with the performers! This was driven home last week when a misguided Neil Patrick Harris fan nearly hijacked Broadway’s �…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:40PM

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